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DBS

Specialty Definition: DBS

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

DBS may stand for:

;Direct broadcast satellite ;Deep brain stimulation

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DBS."

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"DBS" is a plural of: db.

"DBS" is a common misspelling or typo for: dabs, dubs.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: DBS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DBS

EnglishDarden Business SchoolN/A

DBS

GermanDatenbeschreibungsspracheComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Commercial Usage: DBS

DomainTitle

References

  • DBS Group Holdings Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • DBS Land Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • DBS Management Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • DBS Thai Danu Bank Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Aston Martin V8s : DBS V8, V8, Vantage, Volante, Lagonda, Bulldog (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Health Talks at The Cleveland Clinic Presents - Deep Brain Stimulation ( DBS ): Innovative Treatments for Parkinson's Disease (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

  • Tripp Lite Isobar 6 DBS 6-Outlet Strip with 6FT-Cord and Coaxial Jacks (reference)

  • Monster Cable MS DBS DIY-100 Satellite Do It Yourself High Performance Installation Kit (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DBS

"DBS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "DBS" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)88.89%1687,710
Noun (plural)11.11%2245,945
                    Total100.00%18N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: DBS

CountryNameCountryName
Singapore

DBS Group Holdings Ltd

Thailand

DBS Thai Danu Bank Public Company Limited

United Kingdom

DBS Management Plc

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DBS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dbs

376

dbs vickers

4

bank dbs

190

aston dbs martin sale

4

dbs singapore

45

banking dbs

4

banking dbs internet

35

1969 aston dbs martin

3

bank dbs singapore

24

824 dbs panasonic

3

dbs forum

24

panasonic dbs manual

3

panasonic dbs

22

bank dbs in singapore

3

dbs rainbow

19

dbs com

3

aston martin dbs

14

dbs skate supply

3

dbs card

13

824 dbs

3

dbs security

10

card credit dbs

3

cable coax dbs flat

8

2000 dbs

3

dbs satellite

7

dbs microwave

2

bank dbs exchange foreign rate

7

cyklar dbs

2

dbs td waterhouse

7

dbs inc

2

dbs radio

6

dbs vacationfun.com

2

dbs communication

6

back channel dbs europe

2

dbs news

6

dbs securities

2

dbs hwang

5

cykel.com dbs

2

cykel dbs

4

dbs file

2

panasonic dbs phone

4

dbs income shenton

2

clm dbs.vxd

4

dbs income shenton

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DBS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-d-s"
 

+1 letter: bads, beds, bids, bods, buds, dabs, debs, dibs, dubs.

 

+2 letters: balds, bands, bards, based, bauds, bawds, beads, bends, bides, binds, birds, bodes, bolds, bonds, brads, bunds, burds, bused, darbs, daubs, debts, drabs, dribs, drubs, dumbs, sabed.

 

+3 letters: abased, abides, abodes, absurd, abused, adobes, adobos, adsorb, ardebs, badass, badges, bardes, bashed, basked, basted, beards, bedels, bedews, bedims, bedsit, bendys, beside, bested, bestud, biased, biders, bidets, bields, bindis, bipeds, bipods, blades, bleeds, blends, blinds, blonds, bloods, boards, bodies, bossed, bounds, boused, bovids, bowsed, braids, brands, breads, bredes, breeds, brides, broads, broods, budges, builds, bundts, bushed, busied, busked, bussed, busted, cebids, daubes, debars, debase, debits, debris, debugs, debuts, debyes, demobs, desorb, dhobis, disbar, disbud, dobies, doblas, dobras, dobros, dobson, doubts, dweebs, embeds, imbeds, rebids, redubs, sabbed, sabred, seabed, serdab, sobbed, sorbed, subbed, subdeb, subdue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DBS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 42 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    -...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#66 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0042 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

383653

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Company Usage
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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